Policy – Category 2000 (Administration) BP 2005 – Overidentification and Disproportionality Table of Contents BP 2005 – OVERIDENTIFICATION AND DISPROPORTIONALITY ............................... 1 1.0 I NTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................ 1 2.0 IDEA R EQUIREMENT ....................................................................................................... 1 3.0 C OLLECTION AND E XAMINATION OF D ATA R EGARDING D ISPROPORTIONALITY .............. 2 4.0 L EGAL R EFERENCES ........................................................................................................ 3 Introduction It shall be the policy of the Desert Mountain Charter Special Education Local Plan Area (DMCS) and its member Local Education Agencies (LEAs) to prevent inappropriate disproportionate representation by race and ethnicity of children with disabilities. 2.0 IDEA Requirement 1.0 Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations § 300.173. Overidentification and disproportionality. The State must have in effect, consistent with the purposes of this part and with section 618(d) of the Act, policies and procedures designed to prevent the inappropriate overidentification or disproportionate representation by race and ethnicity of children as children with disabilities, including children with disabilities with a particular impairment described in section 300.8. The Charter LEAs shall, with the DMCS assistance, monitor student trends with the intent of averting inappropriate, disproportionate representation of racially, ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse students (by race and ethnicity of children with disabilities). The DMCS shall provide the following assistance:
• Student trend data pertinent to the disproportionate calculation as reported through the California Special Education Management Information System (CASEMIS) to the California Department of Education (CDE).
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Desert Mountain Charter Special Education Local Plan Area (DMCS) (rev. 09/17)
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